OTHER IDEAS:

-Have a Teddy Bear Picnic, where everyone brings a bear from home. At the
picnic, eat crackers with jam, honey toast, berries and cream and bear paw
cookies (below)and some sort of 'berry' juice. Let each child name his/her
teddy, and give them name tags. Make awards for all the teddies (cutest,
smallest, largest, prettiest, fanciest, silliest - whatever you can think of!)

-Play "Bear went over the mountain" * start with all the children on one side
of the room (put table or chair in middle to be mountain) and sing "The bear
went over the mountain" and after each chorus, one child moves to the other
side.

-Bake Banana bread

-Learn the three bear jive
-play "teddy bear, teddy bear touch the ground..."

** bear paw cookies: use sugar cookies (store bought, or bake your own) Using
chocolate
frosting, make a medium size circle on on end, with three small circles, on
the top half above the medium circle (yo make the pads). Children can paint
them on with plastic utensils or tongue depressors.

(This is a great time to do the letter "Bb". Have the children glue buttons
on blue or brown B's.!)



Title: TEDDY BEARS
Submitted by Terri of the K.O.S. Loop
1. Twin Bears: I cut a shirt or dress and a hat, shoes, or bow out of 
different types of material. I glued on set of clothes on a teddy bear 
cutout and laminated it. I then laminated the other pieces of clothing 
individually. I covered a shoe box with wood looking contact paper and 
put the bears inside. I then used clothespins to pin th indiv. clothing 
pieces to the edge of the box. The object is for the children to find 
one bear that is completely dressed and find the clothes to make another 
bear look just like the other one. They have to unpin the clothes from 
the box and then replace it when they are finished. 
2. 1:1 corresp.: I cut out 10 honey pot patterns. I then glued black 
dots on each (1-10 dots). I covered an oatmeal with wood looking contact 
paper and then cut a small hole in the can. this is supposed to be the 
tree. The object is for the children to take a honey pot, put one teddy 
bear counter on each dot and then climb the teddy bears up the tree and 
into the hole. You could also simply put the number on the honey pot for 
older children. 

Title: Bears
Submitted by Betty of the K.O.S. Loop
An easy, not too messy activity for one of those first busy days of 
school. Trace bear outlines on to good , all white paper towels with a 
washable BLACK marker. Have the children use water and a brush and soak 
the black line (good, fine motor)...since black is made up of several 
colors, it will "bleed" out from the line. It is facinating to the 
children....there's some science in there, too!!!....

Area: Fine Motor
Also, we always finger paint with chocolate pudding on our second day 
and fill in the center of a bear outline..of course, we have already 
read"Corduroy"!!! After these dry for a day, we rub a white piece of 
copy paper with a green crayon over a corrogated board (light bulb 
packaging). We talk and feel real samples of corduroy fabric and make 
overalls out of our rubbings. Don't forget to add a pocket and buttons 
after you have read "Pocket for Corduroy"! 

Title: Furry Bear paint
Submitted by Michelle
Materials:
Flour, slat, water, Tempura paint
Mix equal amounts of flour, salt, and the water. Add liquid tempura 
paint for color. Pour into squeeze bottles.
Cut bear shapes out of brown construction paper. Let the children paint 
with the puffy paint by squeezing the paint out of the bottles. The 
paint will harden into a puffy shape. 

Title: Furry Sewing Cards
Cut strudy teddy bear shapes out of card stock. If age appropriate let 
children punch holes along the edge. The let them glu small pieces of 
fur on their sewing card. This will make it feel good while they sew. 
Give each a string of yarn and let them lace. (Hint: Tie a Fruit Loop or 
Cherrios to one end - the yarn will not slip through as sewong. Use 
bobby pin for needle) 

Title: Ouchy Bear
What if your bear got hurt or sick? Set up a doctor table just for 
doctoring bears. Make sure there are plenty of bandaids, wraps, cold 
compresses, guauze pads, tape, play injections, stethescope, ear looker, 
tongue depressors, and rubber gloves. You would be amazed at all the 
stuff hospitals will give you if it's for education. The children will 
spend a lot of timje at this table so have lots of stuff. 

From 
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7914/LLP.html


Bear Art
Cinnamon Bear
   simple bear shape (pre-cut for younger ones)
    cinnamon
    sugar
    liquid glue
    
    1) mix sugar & cinnamon
    2) have older children cut out bear shape 
    3) children can place glue anywhere on the bear & add cinnimon & sugar
mixture 
    4) glue poem to middle of bear so they can share with their parents
   
  Teddy Plates
  1 small paper plate,1 large paper plate, brown construction paper, glue or
tape or stapler
(whatever works for you and your kids), markers or crayons
      Overlap small plate and lg plate (sm plate will be on top for the bears
head/ lg plate on
bottom for the bears body).  Glue them together. Cut 6 circles out of const.
paper.
   2 for the ears, 2 for the hands & 2 for the feet...Glue them in place. Let
the kids draw
their own eyes, nose, mouth...however they want to decorate the bear is fine.


Art: Easel Painting

Provide easels, brown, red, and black paints, and brushes.  Encourage
children to paint bears

Bear Rewards/Picture books

BEAR AWARDS - teacher decides on award after looking at each teddy, awards
are
given with discription written on it...for example: Tallest Bear, Happiest
Bear, Silliest
Bear, Bear with the Biggest nose, Most Hugged Bear, ect. 

Awards given out: (to each bear there)
    Best Bear Family (who had the largest, smallest, unique)
    Best Sports Bear
    Best Celebrity Bear
    Owner-Bear Look Alike
    Well Worn - Most loved Bear
    Most Patriotic Bear
    Largest Bear/Smallest Bear